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UMBRBLLA HOLDER. No. 434,304.,2 v 4,2

Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe FREDERICK W. STRONG, OF NEW YORK, N.. Y.

UMBRELLA-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,304, dated August 12, 1890.

Application tiled December 18, 1889. Serial No. 334,216. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FREDERICK W. STRONG, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrella-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in umbrella-holders, and has for its object to provide a simple and durable device capable of attachment to the side of a car, to the back of a theater-seat, or a church-pew, or to a rack, and in which an umbrella may be conveniently placed and removed therefrom g and a further object of the invention is to so construct the holder that ample provision will be made for the disposal of any water that may drip from an umbrella when the same is wet.

The invention consists in thenovel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the holder, illustrating` the same as applied to the inner wall of a street-car. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder so applied, the said holder being partially in section on the line 2 2 in Fig.

1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the locking mechanism of the holder. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the lower end of said holder.

' It is the prime object of the invention to provide a means for temporarily disposing of an umbrella in a car, coach, church, or place of amusement in such manner that it will not sustain injury and will be out of the way of parties adjacent thereto.

cal, the larger end being at the top, and the length of the holder is sufficient to receive and conceal the cover of the umbrella when the said umbrella is closed.

The holder B is ordinarily constructed of a single piece of metal, that material being preferred, and -isprovided with an opening in its front extending from its top to a point near the bottom,which opening is closed bya door 10, provided with any suitable form of latch 11.

The holder may be attached to the support in any suitable or approved mannergbut the preferred means of attachment consists in producing in the back of the holder near its top and bottom an essentially key-hole slot 12, which slot is adapted to receive the head of a screw, nail, or equivalent device 13, attached to the support, as best illustrated in Figs. 2

and 3.

lVhen the device is used in a street-car, for instance, the screws or nails 13 are secured to the rai-ls A', and when the device is hung upon the said nails its bottom is adapted to rest upon the top of the seat A3. At the bottom of the device at each side a tube 14 is located, having communication with the i11- terior of the holder, as illustrated in Fig. 4,

which tubes project in opposite directions to the rear of the seat-back A3, and conduct any water in the holder which may have dripped from an umbrella placed therein into the space intervening the back of the seat and the side portion A2 of the car, this space being usually adapted to receive the window sash and shutter of the car when the same are opened by being carried downward.

It is obvious that this device may be attached to the backs of theater-seats or to the backs of church-pews, or may be placed in a coach, and that when an umbrella is placed therein it will be safely stored out of the way of passers by or of persons adjacent thereto, and that said umbrella may be readily and expeditiously removed from the holder.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described umbrella-holder, consisting of a downwardly-tapering tubular body hav- IOO ing :L door l0, hinged at one Side of the same :md opening outwardly and provided with a.

latch 1l to secure said door, the body also having :L key-hole slot 12 eut in one side and adapted to fit upon :L supporting headed stud,

Water accumulating therein, substantially as shown and described.

FREDERICK W. STRONG.

W'Vimlesses:

J. F. ACKER, Jr. C. SEDGWICK. 

